Joe D

SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD 128GB Review

March 18, 2013 2

If you are in the market for an SSD, there are a lot of options. The market is so flooded that it may become difficult to pick one. SanDisk thinks they can persuade you to choose their Ultra Plus Solid State Drive by keeping the price low, and the performance on par with drives that cost more. SanDisk brings to the table with them years of experience; they are not new to this game, but do they have what it takes to get your hard earned cache (deliberate play on words)?

XBMC Returns to Regular Release Cycle After Frodo

March 17, 2013 0

XBMC Frodo has been released. With it, the development team has named the next version and returned to a predictable development cycle. Team XBMC has voted and the next version of XBMC, XBMC 13, will have the name Gotham!.

Drobo Reaches Milestone by Surpassing One Exabyte of Storage

March 13, 2013 0

Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced that in aggregate, its customers have purchased and deployed more than an exabyte of storage with Drobo systems. An exabyte is 1,000 petabytes, or 1 million terabytes, or 1 billion gigabytes or the equivalent of 245 million DVDs. Since the first Drobo system was introduced in mid-2007, the company has sold approximately 250,000 systems to creative professionals, prosumers, small businesses and enterprises.

ASUSTOR AS-608T Review

March 8, 2013 0

Storage today has never looked better. The days of loud rackmount servers and complicated operating systems is nearly gone. Today's storage is compact and inviting and the hardware has shifted to smaller systems that house tons of storage. The operating systems have transitioned from expensive name brand products or complicated command line administration to simple web based administration that nearly anyone can use. To keep the market transformation alive, manufacturers need to satisfy our data demand as well as our need for quick and easy administration. Asustor thinks they can deliver on both fronts with the AS-608T, their newest 8 bay NAS with an intuitive IOS-like administration.

Synology Officially Launches DiskStation Manager 4.2

March 6, 2013 0

Synology today released the official version of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.2. “Synology has once again pushed the possibilities of NAS servers to new dimensions by releasing DSM 4.2,” said Vic Hsu, CEO of Synology Inc. “It helps businesses achieve agility as well as productivity in big data storage, and reshapes users’ multimedia experience with a suite of advanced features.”

HighPoint RocketRAID 2720GSL & OpenMediaVault

February 28, 2013 0

For building a NAS, lately my OS of choice has been OpenMediaVault. Unfortunately, OMV doesn't ship with native support for one of the most inexpensive SAS controllers, the HighPoint RocketRAID 2720GSL. To gain support for the controller, you have to backport your Kernel. The process will take only a few minutes and is easy enough for a novice to do.

Fractal Design Define R4 Review

February 25, 2013 4

From what I hear, not all the best cases are made from Aluminum. However, I can't think of the last case I used for my primary workstation that wasn't. Fractal Design has set out to change all that with the Define R4. This case is sleek, sturdy, and may just be the one to displace my aluminum tradition.

Apple TV made relevant again

February 25, 2013 0

Many of us are fans of XBMC and the integration with various platforms like Android and IOS. With the updates to IOS 6.1, Apple TV had been unable to run the XBMC app (as well as other non Apple related media center). Well, today is your lucky day. XBMC dev, Memphiz, has remedied this and XBMC now supports the update.

Thecus Expands HDD Compatiblity List for Their Vision Series

February 21, 2013 0

Today, Thecus announced that they have added a slew of Hitachi drives to their compatibility matrix. Many of the Thecus models have been expanded to include these drives. Thecus maintains that you keep your NAS firmware up to date to benefit from the added compatibilities as well as other features.

QNAP Launches Turbo NAS Series Featuring XBMC

February 20, 2013 0

QNAP has announced that their TS-x69 Pro and L series will run XBMC. The TS-669 PRO proved to be a good NAS and having a built in HDMI port had to account for something... eventually.. Unfortunately, the addition of XBMC came after our review. The setup had worked well with other vendors, and I have full confidence that QNAP is able to pull it off. QNAP has gone beyond what other vendors have done an added a QRemote application for those of you with Apple devices. This allows you to go beyond the standard XBMC remote app by integrating Youtube, Google Chrome, and MyNAS (The Turbo NAS web portal)